Starting to become an expert at this...

No, not being a blogger. That won't be coming anytime soon, though my site is looking more like I would want it too.

I'm actually talking about elections. Just to state the facts, I'm Canadian, not American, even though I'm writing this on the eve of the American election. Or technically on the day of the election(not counting advance polls). In Canada in 2004, I've gotten the federal election, which voted in the Liberal minority govt and Paul Martin, a civic election, which voted in Stephen Mandel, a city councilor, and fairly soon a provincial election, which I hope will launch Ralph Klein out of the legislature finally.

However I'm talking about the American election. Sadly enough, the outcome of this election could determine whether I'll ever be able to visit my relatives ever again. There's Bush, a guy who throws his weight around the world, and then seems surprised that the world should have any authority in judging his actions. If you think that the rest of the world shouldn't have an opinion in your country's domestic matters, then maybe you should stay out of other countries' domestic matters. I'm in the anyone-but-Bush camp. Kerry could really use some charisma. If he could borrow an ounce of Clinton's charisma, it wouldn't be such a tight race. I'm not too thrilled w/ some of his policies to Canada, but it's better than an egocentric fumbling good ol' boy. At least he knows there's people outside of America that matter.

And I'm so glad that it's America who's bringing "democracy" to the world. The same country that has election scandals in 2000, and many more in this election I'm sure. Perhaps like in my civic election where only one registration card was delivered to each house, and if you had more than 1 voter, the extra voters just had to sign a form that said they were eligible. No ID or verification needed. This whole thing just reveals Americans being the hypocrites that they deny in themselves. I'd have to say that one thing seems to run thru most Americans is a certain smugness. Some might call it arrogance, some might call it confidence, but most others will call it annoying. For a nation that's been around less than 300 years, they've developed a mythos of "God's country, God's chosen." While they have their share of important people, some who shouldn't be so great(Thomas Edison, the great plagiarizer), it still doesn't mean some higher power favours them. We've all seen what happens when a set of people believe that their cause is righteous and blame others of wrongdoings. *cough* 9/11 *cough*